nic card

Hi, FreeBSD Gurus! How to flash LEDs on copper ETH RJ-45 NIC's port by shell script? I need to physically identify certain port on back of my servers with a lot of NICs each of them have 2-4 ETH ports. For now I find this solution (on StackExschange, not tested) but may be You propose a much...

Hi FreeBSD Gurus! We have FreeBSD (12 but planning to update to 13) installed on a old (born in 2014) server: PCIe 3.0 motherboard Intel C600 Series with 2xXeon 8-Core CPU with a 6 of PCIe v.3 4 of x8 slots (dedicated to CPU 1) 2 of x16 slots (dedicated to CPU 2) Both CPU are: Xeon E5-2670...

Hi, all FreeBSD Gurus! Could You be so please to explain: On which principles FreeBSD giving the NICs ports identity? From my knowledge, there are involved (from HIGHT IMPACT to LOW): motherboard schematics, BIOS subsystem, NICs mechanical interface (PCI, PCI-e, etc...), NICs order in...

Hello, I attached new nic to the motherboard, it's even in my ifconfig output, but the switch port is not going up. What should I do on FreeBSD host in order to activate new nic? Here Is the output of ifconfig. bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500...

Dear BSD gurus! How to determine the NIC port state (cable plugged yes/no, link yes/no, 10/100/1000 speed link, etc) ? Thank You all!

Hi, hardware gurus! How exactly BSD pf performance (in matter of low latency, high PPS, etc) depend on bus frequency, main CPU frequency and L2/L3 cache size in multi-package (mean physical multi-CPU, like Intel E5500/5600, E5-2000 series) server systems that intend working as border firewall...

Please tell me how to install the firmware update from Intel for network card Intel Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T on motherboard Supermicro X10SDV-4C-TLN2F...

I'd like to buy 2 SFP+ cards and this HP 581201-B21 is dirt cheap compared to the alternatives. Last year it was 2.5x more expensive, so it looks like a really good deal. Idk why it became that cheap, probably it is retired. I am curious if I could use this with the latest FreeBSD? It would be...

Hi, FreeBSD guru! Is it possible at all to see which NIC is installed in which PCI slot by script ? As I know this may be something near the dmidecode and pciconf commands. But interesting to determine which exactly motherboard PCI slot are used for which NIC. I know that different...

The wireless card I'm using is a Sabrent PCI-802N Ralink RT3062F PBG26220E0 I tested the card in Linux and was able to connect another access point and retrieve webpages; in Linux it used the rt2800pci driver; though I didn't set it up as an AP. autoboot_delay="3" if_ral_load="YES"...

I have three Sun 501-6522-07 cards in a Dell Poweredge 2850 and they are recognized and configurable inside FreeBSD 10.3 however no traffic is sent out or received by the NICs. I have checked /boot/kernel and if_cas.ko wasn't there. Am I correct to assume that file needs to be loaded into the...

Hi, I installed a 10GB Intel NIC card (Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710 10/40 GbE) on FreeBSD 10.3 on Dell T630 machine. FreeBSD 10.3 is not recognizing the NIC card. pciconf shows that the NIC card is not recognized. I find the following message on dmesg I tried to unload the...